The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Oxfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 48 57 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.231% 0.156% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.336% 0.265% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £320 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £336
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year
-53.84% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 378 253
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.98% 59.06% 56.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 202 134
Average daily rate £350 £400 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +28.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £253 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 8
Average hourly rate £13.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Stories across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Oxfordshire User Stories Jobs Demand Trend

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Stories across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire User Stories Daily Rate Trend

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing User Stories also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Stories.

1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) GWT
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing User Stories also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Stories. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) E-business
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft